MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is predicting a pardon for convicted intercourse trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, whose confederate Jeffrey Epstein died in jail whereas awaiting trial — so long as she exonerates President Donald Trump from any potential involvement of their crimes.
Trump has been proven in footage and images from the Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s socializing with Maxwell and Epstein, whose ties to highly effective figures, together with Epstein’s obvious jailhouse suicide in 2019, fueled enduring rumors of a “client list” U.S. Legal professional Common Pam Bondi steered she was reviewing earlier this 12 months.
“We’ve all seen the photographs of Donald Trump hanging out with Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein during the Epstein and Maxwell reign of terror against more than a thousand children,” O’Donnell mentioned throughout Monday’s version of “The Last Word.”
Trump has brazenly dismissed public calls for for any remaining Justice Division recordsdata on Epstein to be shared. However amid mounting backlash over this scandal, the administration now seems to be contemplating a deal with Maxwell.
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U.S. Deputy Legal professional Common Todd Blanche visited Maxwell final month, just for Trump to say he wasn’t conscious of the assembly. Final week, the Bureau of Prisons transferred Maxwell from a low-security federal jail in Florida to a minimum-security facility in Texas.
“Donald Trump just now has no idea why his former criminal defense lawyer … became the very first deputy attorney general in history to go to a prison to interview a convicted sex trafficker who the president of the United States personally wishes well,” mentioned O’Donnell.
Trump did certainly “wish her well” when requested in 2020 about Maxwell’s then-recent arrest.
O’Donnell famous that Trump is now able to make his personal well-wishes come true, as he personally has the flexibility to free Maxwell — who was convicted of trafficking and recruiting kids for sexual abuse by Epstein, however is suspected of getting had way more shoppers — earlier than her 20-year sentence is up.
O’Donnell argued {that a} pardon for Maxwell could possibly be damaging to Republicans, nonetheless, so Trump must time it strategically.
“If Donald Trump lets Ghislaine Maxwell out of prison on his last day in office in exchange for her publicly insisting that she and Jeffrey Epstein were never really friends with Donald Trump and that Donald Trump knew nothing about anything illegal that they ever did, well, the last day of the presidency would be the time for him to do that,” he mentioned.
“And then Donald Trump’s wishing her well will really and fully come true,” he concluded.
Federal prosecutors mentioned that Maxwell and Epstein have been “predators together” and “molested kids together,” O’Donnell reminded viewers, since some pro-Trump voices are already suggesting {that a} pardon can be justified if she helps authorities determine different potential accomplices or shoppers.
O’Donnell additionally reiterated how curious it’s that Maxwell, who “personally molested children,” was moved to a “much more pleasant facility” after talking with Trump’s lawyer. Her sentencing guidelines don’t even enable her to serve time there, he mentioned, so “someone had to wish really hard” for that to occur.
“So she’s now guaranteed a very easy time in federal custody for the remainder of the Trump presidency,” he added. “And then, on the last day of the Trump presidency, Ghislaine Maxwell could walk free in exchange for never saying anything negative about Donald Trump.”
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